The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-06-03

will soon b sundown. II you were OF
ago when the war broke out you are now
1t least forty eight Many Of you have
passed into the sixties and seveattes;
therefore il = appropriate that hold two
great lights for yoar illumination-$Ae
example Of Christian Admirals consocrat-
ed to Christ and their country, Admiral
Foote and Admiral Farragut Had the
Christian religion been cowardly thing
they would have had nothing to do with
It In its faith thsy lived ssd died In
our Brooklyn Nsvy-yard Admiral
Foote held prayer meetings and con.
Quoted . revival On tho receiving
ship North Caroline, and On Sabbath, fas
out at sea, followed ths chaplain with
religious exhortatiou. In early life on
board thessloop-of-war Matches, impressed
BY the words Of sailor, he gave his spare
time for two weeks to the Bible. and, at
the end Of that, declared openly: ''Hence-
forth, under all circumstances will act
for Ged." His last words, while dying at
the Aston House, New York, were: 81
thank God for all his goodness to me- He
has been very good to me-" When he en-
tered Heaven he did not have to run Q
blockade, for it was amid the cheers OF q
great welcome. The other CHRISTIAN Ad.
miral will be honored until the day when
the fires from above shall hex up the
waters from beneath, and there shall be
no more sea.
Oh, while old oceans breast
Bears q white sail,
And Gods stars to rest
Guide through the gale,
Men will him me- r forget
Old hearts OF oak,
Farragut, Farragut,
Thunderbolt stroke!
According to his own statement, Farra.
gut was very loose in his morals in early
manhood, and practiccd all kinds Of sin.
One day he was called into the cabin Of
his father, who WAS Q shipmaster. His
father said:
'David, what are you going to be, any.
howW
He answered:
II am going to follow the sea"
"Follow the sea-" said the father, land
be kicked about the world and die in q
foreign hospital!''
"No," said David, II am going to com.
mand, like you"
'No," said the father, "a boy Of your
habits will never command any thing"
and his father burst into tears and left
the cabin.
From that day David Farragut started
on a new life. Captain Pennington. an
honored elder of this church, was with
him in most of his battles and had his in
innate friendship, and he confirms, what
had heard elsewhere, that Farraaut was
good and Christian. In every great crisis
Of life he asked and obtained the
divine direction. When IN Mobile
bay, the monitor Tecumseh sunk from a
torpedo, and the great war ship Brooklyn,
that was to lead the So uadron, turned back,
he said he was at loss to know whether
to advance or retreat, and he says:
Il prayed: ., God who created man
and gave him reason, direct what to do.
Shall go on! And a voice commanded
me: Go on And went on.s
Was there ever q more touching Chris
tan letter than that which he wrote to
his wife from his flagship Hartford.
MY DEAREST WIFE-I write and leave this
the morning, il God is my leader, and hope he
is, and in him place my trust. If he thinks it
is the proper place for me to die am ready to
submit to his will in that as in all other things
God bless and preserve you, my darling, and
my dear boy, il any thing should happen TO me.
May his blessings rest upon you, and your
dear mother, and all your sisters and their
Children.
Cheerful to the end, he said, on board
the Tallapoosa, in the last voyage he ever
took:
o at would be well if I died now, in har.
ness.n
The sublime Episcopal service for the
dead was never more appropriately read
than over his caslset, and we'll dbl all the
forts Of New York harbor thunder as his
body was brought to our wharf, and well
did the minute guns sound and the bells
toll as in a procession having IN its ranks
the Presiden of the United States and
his Cabinet, and the mighty men OF land
and sea, the old Admiral was carried
amid hundreds of thousands Of uncov-
cred heads on Broadway, and laid on his
pillow Of dust in beautiful Woodlawn.
September 80, amid the pomp Of our au-
tumnaI forests.
Ye veterans who fought and sailed I'M
der him, take your Admiral's God and
Christ for your God and Christ After q
few more conflicts you, too, will rest
For the few remaining fights with sin and
death and hell make ready. Strip your
vessel for the fray; hang the sheet chains
over the side; send down the topgallaut
masts: barricade the wheel; rig in the
flying jib- boom; steer straight for the
shining shore, and hear the shout Of the
Great Commander of earth and Heaven
as he crles from the shrouds:
ITO him that overcometh, will give to
eat of the tree of life which is IN the
midst of the Paradise of God.''